In 1977, despite the tremendous success of his instant cameras, the company was unable to make a success of a film venture called Polavision and in 1982, he resigned as a chairman of Polaroid Corporation. Also in the 1970s, Polaroid Corporation pioneered color instant film. In the 1950s, Land and his team helped design the optics of the revolutionary Lockheed U-2 spy plane. He proposed that at least three independent image-forming mechanisms, which he called retinexes, are sensitive to different colours and work in conjunction to indicate the colour seen. Also Land found that the colour perceived is not dependent on the relative amounts of blue, green and red light entering the eye. A color-photo version of the product was released in 1963. The cameras were soon an instant success, selling out during the Christmas season in 1948 and would remain on the market for 50 years thereafter. In 1947, he demonstrated a camera, known as the Polaroid Land Camera, that produced a finished print in 60 seconds. After the war Land began to work on an instantaneous developing film. During World War II he worked in military projects and devised dark-adapt goggles, passively guided smart bombs and target finders. Four years later Edwin developed a widely used, three-dimensional motion-picture process based on polarized light. He founded the Polaroid Corporation in 1937. Land developed and, in 1936, began to use numerous types of Polaroid material in sunglasses and other optical devices. Then in 1932, he established the Land-Wheelwright Laboratories together with his Harvard physics instructor, George Wheelwright, to commercialize his polarizing technology. Also Edwin visited New York Public Library in order to scour scientific literature for works concerning polarizing materials and substances. There he invented the very first cheap filters that had the ability to polarize light, the Polaroid film. Land began his career in New York, where he worked on scientific experiments independently.
But after that Edwin remained active in the field of light and colour research by working with the Rowland Institute of Science, a corporation that he founded in 1960.
A color-photo version of the product was released in 1963.Īlso Land found that the colour perceived is not dependent on the relative amounts of blue, green and red light entering the eye.
Four years later Edwin developed a widely used, three-dimensional motion-picture process based on polarized light.ĭuring World War II he worked in military projects and devised dark-adapt goggles, passively guided smart bombs and target finders. (age 81) Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States
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